Thursday, February 27, 2014

Rosenberg's 12 Books

Author Joel C Rosenberg: Here are twelve books that absolutely changed my life:

Fear No Evil by Natan Sharansky – the spell-binding true story a Jewish dissident who spent 9 years in a KGB gulag, a man who became one of my heroes

From Beirut To Jerusalem by Tom Friedman – the riveting account of a New York Times reporter covering the Middle that made me want to spend my whole life understanding the epicenter

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas – the brilliant biography of one of the most courageous pastors in the history of Germany, a man who stood for Christ during the reign of Hitler

Night by Elie Wiesel – the terrifying true account of a Jewish man sent to the Auschwitz death camp but lost his faith in God

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom – the amazing true story of a godly Christian woman who not only survived a Nazi concentration camp but learned to forgive her captors because of Jesus’ love for her

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis – the most penetrating explanation of what it means to be a true follower of Jesus Christ ever written, by a former atheist professor at Oxford and Cambridge at that

Just As I Am by Billy Graham – the inspiring true story of a North Carolina farm boy who grew up to preach the Gospel to more people face to face than anyone in all of human history

Born Again by Chuck Colson – the game-changing true story of President Nixon’s “hatchet man,” arrested during Watergate, sent to prison, but finding utter forgiveness and redemption through Christ and taking that message to prisoners all over the world

God’s Smuggler by Brother Andrew – the true story of a man willing to risk his life to bring the Word of God to the enslaved people of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

The Coming Peace In The Middle East by Tim LaHaye – long out of print but the most fascinating book about Bible prophecy (specifically Ezekiel 38 & 39) I have ever read, bar none
The Testament by John Grisham – the first novel I ever read that was both absolutely thrilling and spiritually inspiring, something I’d never imagined was possible before reading this book

Training The Twelve by A.B. Bruce – the greatest book on how to make disciples by a pastor and theologian no one has ever heard of.

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